The Painted Hills, a unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, get their name from the stratifications in the soil. The bands are from layers of silt, vegetative matter and more from the time this was an ancient river floodplain. The colored bands in the hills seem to change color with moisture levels and the angle of the sun overhead.
The hills are located about an hour east of Prineville, near Mitchell, Oregon

The lava flow from Belknap Crater forms a great foreground to the view of the North Sister and Middle Sister mountains (the South Sister is hidden behind the Middle Sister in this view). All three of the sisters volcanoes are over 10,000 feet/3,000 meters in elevation.

Two very cool sounding wildflowers taken in southern Washington, just north of the Columbia River in Horsethief Lake State Park.
Tarweed Fiddlenecks are the yellow flowers and the Fringepods are the discs.

Located at the Whitehorse Falls campground on Hwy-138 east of Roseburg, Oregon, you can see a view almost like this from the parking area. It may only be a 15 foot/4.5 meter waterfall, but it is a gorgeous 15 feet...

A pronghorn antelope in the National Bison Range north of Missoula Montana. Widely considered to be the second fastest land animal on Earth (top speed second only to the African cheetah). The pronghorn antelope can reach over 50 mph/90 kph, but can also run long distance at over 35 mph/55kph.

Taken at sunrise on a cold clear morning at 34f/1c degree morning in August. I find it hard to believe that some people were still sleeping in their tents and not seeing this. A fantastic morning.
The South Sister (left) is a dormant volcano, while Broken Top (right) is an extinct volcano. Behind me is Mt Bachelor, another dormant volcano.

St. Mary Lake on the eastern side of Glacier National Park in Montana. Visible near the center of the photograph is Wild Goose Island. The lake is glacially fed and during the winter the surface freezes to an estimated four feet thick.

This "concentrating" lion is at the West Coast Game Park Safari near Bandon, Oregon. It is a walk though animal park where you can look at the animals, pet some, and feed some. No, you cannot feed the lions or tigers...

This incredible white tiger is at the West Coast Game Park Safari, near Bandon, Oregon. It is walk though animal park where you can look at the animals, pet some, and feed some. No, you cannot feed the lions or tigers...